‘Bless us!’ said Mrs. Cluppins.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

I am the last man to contend that these propensities are unconquerable, since my chief object in writing this book has been to combat them.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

It was plain, however, that frequent publication must finally wear out the public favour, unless some mode could be devised to give an appearance of novelty to subsequent productions.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

" "Yes, but the word has dropped out of the text, or perhaps was subauditum; that is, present in the king's mind, but not uttered," said Mr. Casaubon, smiling and bending his head towards Celia, who immediately dropped backward a little, because she could not bear Mr. Casaubon to blink at her.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

[1459] Garcias ab Horto writes of one whom he saw at Goa in the East Indies, that took ten drams of opium in three days; and yet consulto loquebatur , spake understandingly, so much can custom do.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Can there be worse husbandry than to set up so many certain and knowing vices against errors that are only contested and disputable?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

If, however, by the words thirteen dollars I understand so many coins (be their value in silver what it may), it would be quite erroneous to use the expression a quantity of dollars; on the contrary, I must call them aggregate, that is, a number of coins.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

As the next Sunday on which his Vestalin was to be produced was still some time ahead, his prolonged stay gave us several more chances of enjoying his interesting company.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

“Unfortunately,” said Monte Cristo, “one’s title to a millionaire does not last for life, like that of baron, peer of France, or academician; for example, the millionaires Franck & Poulmann, of Frankfurt, who have just become bankrupts.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I am walking, with my hands tied, straight into the penitentiary, unless some miracle can be performed in my favor.
— from The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason by Melville Davisson Post

The shrapnel, which try to stop us at our job, drive us out; but the things that bore us still more— Crack! —are just those obus."
— from Golden Lads by Arthur Gleason

At the end of the twenty-fourth day we reached Fayetteville, where we bid adieu to our carriage and those who had shown us so many courtesies.
— from A Soldier's Experience in Southern Prisons A Graphic Description of the Author's Experiences in Various Southern Prisons by Christian Miller Prutsman

Before these inventions appeared, it is true, Americans had crossed the Alleghanies, reached the Mississippi Valley, and had even penetrated to the Pacific coast; thus in a thousand years or so the United States might conceivably have become a far-reaching, straggling, loosely jointed Roman Empire, depending entirely upon its oceans, internal watercourses, and imperial highways for such economic and political integrity as it might achieve.
— from The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States by John Moody

The views as to the distance of the Ice Age in time from [Pg 7] our own geological day have undergone some marked changes.
— from A Woman of the Ice Age by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap

one which read: "WANTED.—50 skilled motormen, accustomed to Westinghouse system, to run U. S. mail cars only, in the City of Brooklyn; protection guaranteed."
— from Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

If confirmed, we will then have a precise fix on the source that has caused us so much concern.
— from The Egyptian Cat Mystery: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin